Video: Coresite Focuses on Cloud-Ready Data Centers

At Gartner, we had a conversation with CoreSite Chied Operating Officer Jarrett Appleby, who discussed his company's focus on direct connections between data centers and cloud providers to help boost the growth of cloud services.

At the fall Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, Data Center Knowledge interviewed Jarrett Appleby, the Chief Operating Officer of CoreSite Realty Corporation (COR). CoreSite, a publicly traded company, is a national provider of data center products and interconnection services, with more than 750 customers such as Global 1000 enterprises, communications providers, cloud and content companies, and a wide range of enterprises. In this video, Appleby discusses Coresite's move to leverage direct connects between its data center campuses to support the "old" and "new" worlds, as well as partnering with companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), RiverMeadow Software and Violin Memory. These partnerships enable carriers and cloud service providers within the CoreSite ecosystem to deliver high-performance cloud on-boarding, disaster recovery and storage services over their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. The video runs about 4 minutes.